Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1393123138
Date:	Sun Jul 5 21:57:38 UTC 2026
Description:	The arena of contrasting colour and space of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the world of light and dark where the scale and openness to the piece is a primary sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A notable feature of this work is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality so clearly visible. The artist does not use a limited canvas to shape the colours, which therefore float free. Contrasts of light and dark emphasise the vastness of the work. ``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]
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